Pope Leo calls on Uruguay's Catholics to be 'bridge builders'
Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics in Uruguay to build bridges of faith and fraternity on the second day of his 12-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru.
Key points
- Vatican says some 40,000 Catholic faithful attended the pontiff's service in Uruguay's western city of Paysandu.
- The pope's three-country tour comes just three weeks after he underwent surgery for lung cancer.
Three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, Pope Francis has begun a three-nation tour of Latin America, saying he felt better than he looked.
His first stop is Uruguay, the continent’s most secular country.
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